sunless

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From sun +‎ -less.

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sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)

  1. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
  2. (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
    • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:
      When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.

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